📢 A New EvoThan Symposium is coming! Join us Sept. 14–15, 2026 at UCL, London (and online) for EvoThan2026: International Symposium on Comparative Evolutionary Thanatology. Come learn how animals respond to death and dying. Free to attend! Link: evothanatology.wixsite.com/evothan #EvoThan2026

PATHOGENS vs PREDATORS: How do these major evolutionary pressures shape the way a non-human great ape think? Get some cues 👉 www.cell.com/iscience/ful... New research paper (!!!) from my time at Kyoto U w/ I Adachi, AJJ MacIntosh, N Kawai & @fieryangelsfell.bsky.social

Dissecting disgust and fear in chimpanzees: From facilitation to disruption of cognitive processes

Natural sciences; Biological sciences; Zoology; Evolutionary biology

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Comparative Thanatology Highlights — 2026 Edition (so far). See the thread below for this year's standout publications. #comparativethanatology #evolutionarythanatology

People who call urban gulls “flying rats” fail to realise that they are more like cats - they undoubtedly provide serious rodent control in cities. This one in Liverpool grabbed this young rat from under our bench and proceeded to thoroughly kill it in front of us. #urbangulls

I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M_tQgoqV4ivpfEClh9qs9f2KQN2O1G3Jpda2aoHfQ/edit?usp=sharing I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026

If you have (or will soon) complete your PhD & would like to join a thriving cultural evolution research group in NEW ZEALAND, drop me a line. UoA offers a handful of funded research fellowships. Applications must be made by a faculty member. Deadline August. Pls share with your students

I’m currently attending the excellent @efp2026.bsky.social in Montpellier, and I’ll be speaking on July 1st at the symposium on power at 12:05 (MSH-Sud Auditorium). This is the final week to apply for a PhD position in my new group. Let’s talk tomorrow ;-) danaipapageorgiou.weebly.com/join-us.html

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026), the French-Iranian author and illustrator behind the popular graphic novel series and film “Persopolis,” RIP 🙏

Delighted to share my latest TED-Ed video, explaining how scientists discovered that cats use the chemicals from silvervine and catnip to protect themselves against mosquitoes. This discovery may open the way to the development of new mosquito repellents for human use. ed.ted.com/lessons/why-...

Why does catnip make cats go crazy? - Jaap de Roode

Of the many bewildering behaviors cats display, one of the strangest is their obsession with a specific species of plant. After just one whiff, even the most stoic cat can start pawing, drooling, biti...

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💙 Call for contributions! 💙 To mark 60 years since the Man the Hunter conference (1966), Hunter Gatherer Research is curating a two-part special issue on “Lessons and Reflections from Hunter-Gatherer Research” www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr A thread on the two issues & formats👇

Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias@ceciliapad.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨NEW SPECIAL ISSUE SERIES OF HUNTER-GATHERER RESEARCH🚨Celebrating and critically reflecting on the history and methodologies of the field, co-edited by @haneuljang.bsky.social and I. More info, check the submissions page of our website: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr or get in touch!

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In Iran, Cheetah Sightings Offer Rare Spots of Hope Amid War

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Please share widely! Abstract submissions open for the 2026 Jacques Monod conference: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world! Held in beautiful Roscoff France from November 2- 6, 2026. Abstracts submission deadline : June 6 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

Disease cues and social avoidance Study how sensory disease cues shape social avoidance 🙅 and immune responses 🩸 using VR 🎮, laboratory experiments, and psychophysiological methods. ⏳ Start: Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline: May 17 📍 CNRS / University of Montpellier 🇫🇷 → emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

⚠️ Deadlines are approaching! ⚠️ Interested in disgust and, more broadly, human disease avoidance? 🚨 Two PhD positions are currently open: see thread below 👇

🤢 Disgust, food avoidance, & immunity Study how disgust shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 using VR 🎮, laboratory experiments, and psychophysiological methods. With @csarabian.bsky.social & me ⏳ Start: Oct 2026 | Deadline: May 20 📍 Univ. Montpellier 🇫🇷 → euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430

Very interesting new study, suggesting that Barbary macaques eat soil to deal with the negative effects of eating junk food left behind by tourists. So many lessons here: animals: inventive; junk food: bad. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/monk...

Monkeys learn to eat soil so they can tolerate high-calorie junk food

Gibraltar’s famous macaques have started eating soil, a behaviour linked to their access to tourist snacks, according to a new study.

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My supervisor Kano is advertising multiple open positions! Check out the doc :) Open Positions @ Kyushu Univ (Kano Lab) Postdoc / Tech staff / PhD-MSc Eye-gaze & social cognition (exp + field + CV) 🎥 youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU 📁 docs.google.com/document/d/1... @animalopps.bsky.social

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YouTube video by 狩野文浩

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Malaria was fundamental in shaping the course of human evolution, @camzoology.bsky.social researchers have found. Between 74,000 and 5,000 years ago, early humans in Africa avoided high-risk malaria areas, shaping the population structure seen today. Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/4tUdOxe

🚨✨ JOB OFFERS ✨🚨 🧠 Interested in disgust and human disease avoidance? 🦠🤢 🎓 2 PhD positions (Montpellier 🇫🇷) + 1 postdoc (Stockholm 🇸🇪) now open! 📢 Exciting projects in VR, psychophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology, social behavior, and health 🧵 Details + deadlines in thread below!

Delighted to share the special issue “Frans de Waal’s Legacy: Looking Back and Forward” (#Behaviour, April 2026) 👉 brill.com/view/journal... Honouring #FransdeWaal, this collection reflects on his transformative impact on #Primatology, #Empathy, #Morality and #SocialBehaviour across species.

In Playing Possum, @susanamonso.com explores how animals conceive of death and dying—and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality. The #paperback edition arrives on 14 April! Preorder yours here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Philosophy

🚨 4-year PhD 🚨 Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 through VR 🎮 + lab exp + psychophysiology with @csarabian.bsky.social, Marie Charpentier (@mandrillusproject.bsky.social) & me ⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline May 20 📍 Univ Montpellier 🇫🇷 --> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430

PhD for Thesis No. 2 of the SENS-ALIM Nexus: ‘Between disgust and immunity: Avoidance strategies and vulnerability to risks associated with foodborne pathogens’

- work environment: Humans are constantly exposed to pathogens in their environment. In addition to physiological immunity, a behavioural immune system enables the detection of risks and helps to avoi...

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⚠️ 2-year Postdoc – Experimental Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 🇸🇪 Join @matsjolsson.bsky.social lab 🦠 & study human behavioral defenses using experiments, fMRI & biological markers 🧠🧪 PhD in psychology, neuroscience, or related field 🎓 More info --> ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Experimental Psychology

Do you want to contribute to improving human health? We are currently looking for a driven and curious postdoctoral researcher who wants to join Mats J. Olsson’s research group in the Division of Ps

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My first story for @science.org covers microscopic spikes on ball python scales that can inhibit bacterial biofilm formation. Antibacterial microstructured surfaces could be a lifeboat in an ocean of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but only if we understand how they work!

Microscopic spikes on snakeskin block bacterial buildup

Structures on python scales could inspire chemical-free antimicrobial designs

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The Cognitive Construction Lab is hiring a full-time lab manager! Come work with me at UMass Amherst, starting this Fall. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3dpz5m3j

Technical Assistant I (Lab Manager - Cognitive Construction Lab) - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Title: Technical Assistant I (Lab Manager - Cognitive Construction Lab) Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Psychology and Brain Sci Work Locat...

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They can be nutritious, but they can also make one sick?

Joris M. Koene@joriskoene.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What do milk, seminal fluid, eggs, and regurgitates have in common? Find out during our Focus Session at NWO Life 2026 “Socially Transferred Materials: Connecting Physiology, Ecology & Evolution” (28-29 May 2026, Egmond aan Zee, NL) 🐜 🐸 🐌 🐄🥚 @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

Cool study showing just how common it is for capuchins to anoint themselves and each other with the antimicrobial toxins produced by millipedes. 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Contexts of Anointing Behavior in a Group of Blond Capuchin Monkeys (Sapajus flavius) Inhabiting an Atlantic Forest Fragment

Wild blond capuchin anoints with millipede species that secrete a chemical capable of repelling ectoparasites, suggesting a self-medicative function. Social and solitary anointing bouts occurred at s...

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INÉDIT 🎬 Elle avait disparu des radars depuis les années 70, pourtant la loutre fait son grand retour, notamment sur le Lez qui traverse Montpellier 🦦. Découvrez dans ce reportage les signes que laisse l’espèce derrière... 🐾 Le reportage 👉 lejournal.cnrs.fr/videos/le-re...